Monelo Editorial Team

The voice behind every guide.

The Monelo Editorial Team writes and maintains every guide on monelo.ai. Our job is to take tenant law — which is genuinely complicated and written by people who weren't trying to be understood — and translate it into plain English, with the actual statute numbers, so a renter holding a lease can decide what to do.

What we do

We write the guides at monelo.ai/guides. Each one starts with the real question a renter Googles when they're confused or worried, opens with the answer in plain language, and then explains it with the actual law — statute citations included. We write for someone who has 90 seconds and just wants to know what to do, not for someone who wants to learn tenant law.

How we work

Three principles guide everything:

• Cite the actual statute. Every legal claim ties back to a real section of code — Cal. Civ. Code §1671, Tex. Prop. Code §92.103, RCW 59.18.150, and so on. We link to the official source where we can. If we're unsure whether a citation is current, we say so rather than guess.
• Calm voice, no performance. Tenant issues are often emotional — your landlord just locked you out, your deposit isn't back, your ESA was denied. The instinct in this kind of content is to lead with sympathy ("Dealing with an unannounced landlord visit can be incredibly stressful…"). We reject that every time. Empathy comes through by being useful, not by performing concern. The voice is dry, confident, slightly clinical — like a calm tenant lawyer at brunch, not a wellness app.
• Real examples, not abstractions. Every guide includes red-flag clause language — actual lease text we've seen in the wild — and a "what this means for you" callout. If a guide doesn't help you make a decision, it failed.

How we keep guides current

Tenant law moves. California passed AB 1482 in 2019, Oregon SB 608 the same year, Washington HB 1236 in 2021. The federal Fair Housing Act assistance-animal guidance memo (HUD FHEO-2020-01) was formally withdrawn in September 2025. State auto-renewal rules and rent-cap thresholds shift on their own timelines.

Every guide carries a Reviewed [Month Year] stamp showing when an editor last vetted it against current law. We re-review on a quarterly cadence for guides citing fast-moving areas (just-cause eviction, rent control, assistance animals) and annually for stable areas (security-deposit basics, lease-clause definitions). When a guide changes materially, the date moves and we note what changed in the body.

If you spot an out-of-date citation, an overstated rule, or a guide that's drifted from how a court would actually apply the law — email us. We treat corrections as the most important kind of feedback we get.

What we don't do

We don't give legal advice. We don't tell you what to do in your specific situation — that's between you, the facts of your case, and an actual licensed attorney where you live. The guides are general explainers of how the law typically works, written so you can have an informed conversation with a landlord, a roommate, or a lawyer.

For high-stakes situations — disputes, evictions, illegal lockouts, commercial leases, unusual property types — talk to a tenant attorney in your jurisdiction. Several states have free or low-cost tenant-law clinics; many bar associations maintain referral lines. We can point you toward general resources, but we can't be your lawyer and we're not pretending to be.

Who's behind it

The Monelo Editorial Team is part of Monelo, a small operation based in Kuwait that built the lease-analysis tool the guides live alongside. The same care that goes into reading your specific lease in the analyzer goes into writing the guides.

Reach us at hello@monelo.ai. We read everything that comes in.